Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht turns 36 today, spending his seventh birthday in a row in jail.
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Ross Ulbricht, also known as Dread Pirate Roberts, is the owner of the trading platform Silk Road. Silk Road was a platform for trading drugs, psychotropic substances and other illegal products. The website was working as a hidden service with Bitcoin as the main currency that was used as a payment method on the site because of its relative anonymity, transactions’ speed and Ross’s affection for digital currency. Ross Ulbricht’s net worth is estimated to be several millions of dollars, a result of charging a fee on every successful deal. In 2013, he was arrested on charges of drug trafficking, hacking attacks and conspiracy to commit money laundering. In 2015, Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life imprisonment at the age of 31.
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by Felipe Erazo
A petition asking for Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht’s release has gathered over 275,00 signatures.
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by Jack Martin
The senior adviser to Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht had pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute narcotics in a Manhattan Federal Court.
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Two Bitcoin community heavyweights engage in a Twitter battle after a Bitcoin price wager from 2018 appeared to go unhonored.
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by Dylan Love
It’s not everyday a billionaire calls for the release of a criminal. Tim Draper’s doing it twice.
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Ross Ulbricht, currently serving a life sentence for his participation in the now-closed Silk Road marketplace, has his sentence review denied by the Supreme Co...
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500 BTC ($5.5 mln) to be seized if four people in Ohio are convicted of selling and transferring fake identification documents.
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Are governments trying to use cryptocurrencies as another reason to spy on us?
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Shadow online marketplace AlphaBay is shut down in a sting operation reminiscent of the Silk...
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A mysterious Ethereum trader has boasted about earning $283 mln in just one month which renewed concerns about the anonymous nature of cryptocurrencies.
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